It is crucial to understand that this is a major reason for the West’s increasing belligerence toward China over the past decade. China’s development is challenging Western monopolies. This imposes a direct squeeze on Western profits but it also undermines a core tenet of imperialism.
The West’s monopoly power allows them to impose dependency on the global South. The South is forced to export large quantities of raw materials and intermediate goods in order to pay for imports at monopoly prices.
This produces large net flows from the global South, propping up the West’s growth and profits. If the West’s monopoly power declines, this flow gets cut off. They are desperate to prevent this from happening, to the point of fantasising about going to war with China to destroy China’s industrial base.
The West’s whole model for capital accumulation depends on Southern dependency. As that arrangement becomes increasingly unstable, the Western ruling class will become increasingly violent.
🇨🇺 Cuba has done it again.
Meet VAXIRA® — a therapeutic cancer vaccine developed by Cuban and Argentine scientists that helps the immune system recognise and destroy lung cancer cells. Approved in both Cuba and Argentina for advanced non-small cell lung cancer.
🔬 It works by mimicking a molecule found on cancer cells but almost entirely absent in healthy human tissue — meaning it targets tumours with remarkable precision and very few side effects.
📊 Clinical trials showed a significant improvement in survival for advanced lung cancer patients, with 1-year survival nearly doubling compared to the control group. Real-world data shows median survival of up to 24.5 months in maintenance therapy.
💉 Minimal side effects. Suitable for long-term use. Affordable and accessible — unlike many Western immunotherapies that price patients out of treatment.
And in 2025, VAXIRA® received Cuba's National Technological Innovation Award. All of this achieved by a country under decades of US economic blockade.
The United States spends billions on cancer research. Cuba, under sanctions, develops vaccines the world hasn't seen before. 🇨🇺🔬
#VAXIRA #CubanScience #LungCancer #CancerResearch #Biotechnology
Marco Rubio posted a video to Cubans claiming there’s no oil blockade. Needless to say, it didn’t land well with Cubans who are living through blackouts that became far worse after the U.S. began stopping oil from getting to the island.
NOW: Massive rally in front of the US embassy in Havana, ready to defend Raúl Castro and the Cuban Revolution.
BT's @ldejesusreyes reports from Havana.
Since March 2 alone, over 124 first responders have been deliberately killed by Israel in Lebanon, almost all of them in double-tap strikes.
Our first responders in south Lebanon are operating under impossible conditions, enduring Israeli attacks on our people and the direct killing of their own colleagues. Yet, their humanitarian mission continues.
*photo I took today in Nabatieh, south Lebanon, of a Lebanese Civil Defense ambulance, displaying pictures of two colleagues previously killed by Israel
Small thread on what I consider **the** most underrated aspect of Marxist theory:
__The obsolescence of "individual exchange".__
By underrated I mean: not featured enough in discussions compared to alienation, rate of profit, crisis, primitive accumulation, class struggle, etc.
Today marks Nakba Day, an annual day of remembrance to commemorate the expulsion of more than 700,000 Palestinians between 1947 and 1949 during the creation of the State of Israel and the year that followed.
Inea is a New Yorker and a Nakba survivor. She shared her story with us — one of home, tradition and memory over generations.
Hussein Saleh lost 8 members of his family in an Israeli strike on their home, including his pregnant wife.
He found the head of his young daughter amid the rubble. “When I picked up her head, everything changed. Something in my heart broke and went silent.”
It is one of the most heartbreaking stories @NadaOHomsi and I have worked on during the war.
Nothing could justify such a horrific attack.
What the US is doing in Iran is barbaric.
Trump is intentionally targeting civilian infrastructure, and boasting about it.
The US military launched a double-tap strike on a bridge with no military activity, massacring Iranian civilians who were picnicking.
This is terrorism.
BREAKING: Israel's Knesset has passed a law to execute Palestinian detainees.
Death by hanging. Mandatory sentencing. No pardon. 90 days to carry out.
It applies through military courts with a 96% conviction rate. It does not apply to Israelis.
What an absolutely irresponsible article that regurgitates US state talking points. Living in the United States has completely skewed our own idea of a democracy. The Cuban people is the Cuban government. We cannot relate to it because what we have is so far from that.
There’s something supremely saddening and enraging about seeing a hospital running on bare minimum power. Thinking about dialysis patients, babies in NICU, and others tonight in Cuba. This is a blockade of death.
Doctors in Havana say at least 3,000 people are relying on dialysis machines to stay alive, and may die if these blackouts continue. This is murder.
https://t.co/q2pQW9Sfg6
BREAKING:
🇨🇺🇺🇸 Cuba's President says due to Trump’s oil blockade, thousands are waiting for surgeries:
“Tens of thousands are waiting for surgeries that cannot be performed, because there is no electricity.
Among them, a significant number of children.”
The US bombing of schoolchildren in Iran is the biggest single US massacre of civilians since My Lai. The Israeli bombing of Tehran’s oil storage constitutes the biggest single act of chemical warfare against a civilian population in history. Grotesque new depths of barbarism.
"He went up and another blast happened and he was martyred too."
A 10-year-old Iranian girl recalls the Feb. 28 U.S. strike on her school that killed both her parents, along with her 11-year-old brother.